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==Overview==
===Thunder Warriors===
Originally, Primarch was simply a martial rank of the [[Thunder Warriors]]. Each of the twenty legions of Thunder Warriors was led by a "Primarch". However these warriors were no different than those they led. Instead, they were officers of superlative skill promoted to the position by the [[Emperor]]. One of the known Thunder Warriors Primarch's Warrior Primarchs was [[Ushotan]].{{Fn|33}}
===Creation of the Primarchs===
[[Image:The_primarchs_wall.jpg|thumb|right|500px|An assembly of the Primarchs during the great Triumph after the [[Ullanor Crusade]]. Left to right: [[Sanguinius]], [[Mortarion]], [[Magnus the Red]], [[Angron]], [[Jaghatai Khan]], [[Lorgar Aurelian]], [[Rogal Dorn]], [[Horus Lupercal]], and [[Fulgrim]].]]
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The Primarchs were created in a secret underground laboratory on [[Terra]]{{Fn|14}} under the tightest security. According to [[Ingethel|Ingethel the Ascended]], the Primarchs were created by the Emperor with the aid of forbidden sciences and arcane lore derived from the [[Warp]].{{Fn|14}} [[Eldrad Ulthran]] also states that the Emperor utilized dark powers to construct the Primarchs.{{Fn|19}} It is speculated the Primarchs were imbued with energies and knowledge that the Emperor gained in a Warp Portal on [[Molech]].{{Fn|20}} The genetic material of the powerful [[Perpetual]] [[Erda]] were used in the creation of the Primarch's Primarchs and she viewed them as her "sons".{{Fn|38a}} [[Perturabo]] would later estimate his own birth to be 792.[[M30]], perhaps giving a date for the Primarch's creation.{{Fn|26}}
However, the [[Gods of Chaos]] somehow managed to spirit them away just prior to their maturation with a great [[Warp]] vortex{{Fn|9}} and it is speculated that they also managed to tamper with the infant Primarchs. The scattering of the Primarchs may have been the result of a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_loop Causal Loop] created when [[Argel Tal]] and his men were sent back in time inside the [[Eye of Terror]] to the Emperor's laboratory, as they were convinced by [[Ingethel the Ascended]] to destroy the [[Gellar Field]]s protecting the infants from the touch of the Chaos Gods. Almost immediately after the Gellar Field generators were disabled, the Primarchs were sucked into a Warp vortex.{{Fn|14}} Other sources state that the Perpetual [[Erda]] was involved in the theft of the Primarchs and created the Warp Vortex that scattered them due to her anger over the fate the Emperor planned for her "children".{{Fn|38a}}. According to [[Erebus]], Erda was unwittingly manipulated by the [[Chaos Gods]] into committing this act.{{Fn|42}} Several Primarchs, including [[Konrad Curze]], [[Roboute Guilliman]], and even [[Sanguinius]] all came to believe that the scattering of the Primarchs and their upbringing on distant worlds had all been engineered by the Emperor.{{Fn|23}}
There have been several instances of cloned Primarchs, the result being a mentally unstable, confused, and sometimes deformed creature. The first cloned primarch was [[Ferrus Manus]], created by [[Fabius Bile]] at the demand of a mad [[Fulgrim]]. Fulgrim attempted to again convert Ferrus to his cause before killing him once more, a process that was repeated multiple times with new clones.{{Fn|21}}
Perhaps the most notable example of a cloned Primarch was after the [[Horus Heresy]], where Fabius Bile again cloned a son of the Emperor, this time [[Horus]] from DNA provided by the [[Warmaster]]'s corpse. Confused and senile, this clone of Horus didn't initially recognize many of his closest comrades such as [[Ezekyle Abaddon]] and proved a poor imitation of the real Lupercal. Abaddon [[Battle of Harmony|killed the clone]], and in its dying moments it recognized who the First Captain was. During the same period, Bile attempted to clone all twenty Primarch's Primarchs from gathered samples, the result being a hall of pods with monstrosities and deformed adolescent creatures. All of these abominations were killed by Abaddon and his forces.{{Fn|22}}
Sometime after [[The Shattering]], Bile discovered one of his clones of Fulgrim managed to survive underneath the rubble of [[Harmony]]. Under Bile's care the clone rapidly matured and was "pure", retaining none of Fulgrim's corruption. However when Bile saw that the clone still retained all of Fulgrim's arrogance and was doomed to go down the same path as the original, he traded him to [[Trazyn the Infinite]] in exchange for a lost [[Emperor's Children]] [[Gene-Seed]] stock.{{Fn|39}}
*{{Endn|3}}: [[Nightbringer (Novel)]]{{cite this}}
*{{Endn|4}}: [[Hell in a Bottle (Short Story)]]
*{{Endn|5}}: [[Malleus (Novel)]], Chapter Seven, page pg. 89
*{{Endn|6}}: [[Codex Imperialis (Background Book)]], section previewed in [[White Dwarf 166 (UK)]]
*{{Endn|7}}: [[Codex: Ultramarines (2nd Edition)]]{{cite this}}
*{{Endn|8}}: [[Index Astartes I]]{{cite this}}:
**{{Endn|8a}}: ''Children of the Emperor''
**{{Endn|8b}}: ''The Unforgiven''
**{{Endn|8d}}: ''Lightning Attack''
*{{Endn|9}}: [[False Gods (Novel)]], Chapters 15-16
*{{Endn|10}}: [[Renegades]] by [[Andy Chambers]], [[Jervis Johnson]] & [[Rick Priestley]]{{cite this}}
*{{Endn|11}}: [[Space Marine (Novel)]] {{cite this}}
*{{Endn|12}}: [[The Lightning Tower (Short Story)]]
*{{Endn|13}}: [[Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition)]], pg. 8
*{{Endn|14}}: [[The First Heretic (Novel)]], Chapter 17
*{{Endn|15}}: [[The Primarchs (Anthology)]]: , ''Cover Illustration''
*{{Endn|16}}: [[Horus Rising (Novel)]], Part Two, Chapter Seven, pg. 333
*{{Endn|18}}: [[Prospero Burns (Novel)]] {{cite this}}
*{{Endn|19}}: [[Fulgrim (Novel)]], Chapter 14
*{{Endn|20}}: [[Vengeful Spirit (Novel)]] {{Cite this}}
*{{Endn|21}}: [[Imperfect (Short Story)]] in — [[Death and Defiance (Anthology)]]
*{{Endn|22}}: [[Talon of Horus (Novel)]], Chapter 19
*{{Endn|23}}: [[Pharos (Novel)]], Chapter 24
*{{Endn|26}}: [[Perturabo: The Hammer of Olympia (Novel)]], Chapter 7
*{{Endn|27}}: [[Malcador: First Lord of the Imperium (Audio Drama)]]
*{{Endn|28}}: [[Index Astartes II]]:
**{{Endn|28a}}: ''Wolves of Fenris''
**{{Endn|28b}}: ''Emperor's Fist''
**{{Endn|28c}}: ''Bringers of Darkness''
**{{Endn|28d}}: ''Angels of Death''
*{{Endn|29}}: [[Index Astartes III]]:
**{{Endn|29a}}: ''Hand of Justice''
**{{Endn|29b}}: ''Chosen of Khorne''
**{{Endn|29d}}: ''The Lost and the Damned''
**{{Endn|29e}}: ''Masters of Forbidden Knowledge''
*{{Endn|30}}: [[Index Astartes IV]]:
**{{Endn|30a}}: ''Sons of Horus''
**{{Endn|30b}}: ''Dark Apostles''
**{{Endn|30e}}: ''The Enemy Within''
*{{Endn|31}}: [[The Horus Heresy Book Three - Extermination]], ''The Imperial Fists''
*{{Endn|32}}: [[The Horus Heresy Book Seven - Inferno]]:
**{{Endn|32a}}: ''The Space Wolves''
**{{Endn|32b}}: ''The Thousand Sons''
**{{Endn|38b}}: Part 1, Chapter 1
*{{Endn|39}}: [[Fabius Bile: Clonelord (Novel)]], Chapters 24-25
*{{Endn|40}}: [[Alpharius: Head of the Hydra (Novel)]]{{Cite this}}
**{{Endn|40a}}: ''Discovery''
**{{Endn|40b}}: ''Hydra Dominatus''
